indigitationn.
/ɪndɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > pointing out > [noun]
appointmenta1530
reference1591
indication1626
indigitation1644
citation1721
cross-reference1834
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 163 The naturall validity of this indigitation of persons.
1653 H. More Antidote Atheism (1662) ii. vii. 59 Which things I conceive no obscure Indigitation of Providence.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Indigitation, a pointing at, or shewing with the finger.
1689 S. Willard Brief Disc. Ceremony of Laying Hand on Bible in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 189 This [taking of an oath upon the Bible] must of necessity be more than the bare Indigitation of the Person, and nothing less than a Religious Application.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Indigitation, an indigitating, or shewing; a convincing Proof, or plain Demonstration.
2. Computing or conversing by the fingers.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language
hand language1625
arthrology1641
chirology1656
dactylology1656
finger-talk1656
finger language1669
hand alphabet1680
semiology1694
finger alphabet1751
finger talking1823
sign language1824
finger speech1826
indigitation1826
manual alphabet1876
dactylography1884
signing1891
American Sign Language1900
sign1930
British Sign Language1961
ASL1965
Ameslan1972
Yerkish1973
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > counting on fingers
finger counting1804
indigitation1826
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 77 He wrote also upon indigitation, both as an art of computing by the fingers, and of conversing by them.
3. Anatomy. Interlocking of the fingers of two hands; hence, the mode of junction of muscle and tendon.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun]
seamc1050
commissure?a1425
arthrodia1565
commissary1577
gomphosis1578
inarticulation1578
suture1578
symphysis1578
synarthrosis1578
adarticulation1615
harmony1615
synchondrosis1615
enarthrosis1634
harmonia1657
mortise-articulation1658
ball and socket1664
synneurosis1676
syssarcosis1676
ginglymus1678
syndesmosis1726
ginglymus1733
hinge-joint1802
screw-joint1810
schindylesis1830
amphiarthrosis1835
pivot joint1848
synosteosis1848
synostosis1848
indigitation1849
screwed-surfaced joint1875
thorough-joint1889
1849 T. Callaway Diss. Dislocations & Fractures 33 The Serratus magnus..takes its rise by nine indigitations from the eight superior ribs.
1851 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 5) 217 To show the muscles beneath without interfering with its indigitations with the serratus magnus.
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